Improvement in button-holes for paper collars



` 4%; mieli t 7 y Sgntent @film WILLIAM ROBINSON, OI? ROCHESTER, NEWYORK.r

Letters Patent No. 85,535, dated January 5, 1869; antellated December22, 1868.

` IMPROVEMENT 1N BUTTON-HOLES FOR PAPER COLLARS.

The'Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pan: of thesame.

ATo all whom it 'ma/y concern .Be it known that I,WIIQL1AM H. ROBINSON,of

Rochester, in the county of Monroe, and State of New York, have made andinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Holes, especiallyas applied to paper collars, cuffs, and similar' articles; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full and accurate description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making partof this specication, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The object of this invention is to avoid the rigidity and want ofelasticity which form a serious objection to the buttoning of all papercollars, cuffs,'&c.

This rigidity is not only objectionable on the score of inconvenience inbuttonin g, but it causes the buttonholes to tear out, even thoughstayed or strengthened by cloth pasted over them ;k and in addition tothis, the

vordinary button-holes in paper articles are very apt to unbntton fromthe same cause.

I avoid these difficulties by means of an elastic button-hole, formed asfollows: -I punch out of thin rubber, or mould, as may be deemed best toadjust, a piece, similar to the size and shape shown dark in Figure 3,and having a hole in the centre.

I punch a. button-hole in the collar or cuff, about the 'size and shapeshown in Figure 2 or 4, and extending is only necessary to take hold ofthe extreme corner or free edge, and pull it out. The small hole is thenenlarged and elongated, so as easily to slip over the button; and byremoving the tension, it contracts firmly around the neck of the button,and holds the same securely. l

' What I therefore claim as my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

An elastic button-hole, formed by attaching rubber to the fabric, andhaving the hole in the fabric cut through to the outer edge, for thepurpose as fully set forth and described.

' WM. H. ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

OHAS. VALLI., W. J. WILooX.

